Highly Suspect Reviews: The Big Sick

Kumail Nanjiani is happily married to his creative partner and wife, Emily Gordon. But things weren’t always looking so good. Together, the two of them wrote The Big Sick, the story of how shortly into their relationship Emily almost died, with a bit of dramatic embellishment and with Zoe Kazan playing Emily. Believe it or not, according to our reviewers (and dammit, MOST reviewers) The Big Sick is not just one of the best films of the year, but one of the best Romcoms ever made. Check out the review with Jon, Chris, Harris, Marco and Beau.

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, in 1992 Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas, where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free, by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal”, turned into a full time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this paradise you see before you.